Sometimes database architectures are described as ‘CP’ (consistent but not available under network partitions) or ‘AP’ (available but not consistent under network partitions) - Martin Kleppmann presents a compelling argument for why such terminology doesn’t help us a lot.

Redis has come a long way from being a small personal project from Antirez, to being an industry standard for in memory data storage. With that comes a set of best practices that most people can agree upon for using Redis properly. Check out 10 quick tips on using Redis correctly.

As Redis has become more popular, more Heroku users are leaning on external services like RedisGreen to get Redis support in their apps. Heroku are now trialling hosting it in-house, as they already do with Postgres.

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